Yves Smith

Yves here. Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the prospects for the midterms, and conclude that it is not the slam dunk for Team Dem that most assume.

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples… There is only one holistic system of

[Today's Iran war, as usual, fired a bit early. Please return at 7:30 AM EDT for a final version]

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Yves here. Readers will know that we regularly use extreme neocon Simon Watkins' fulminating as reader critical thinking exercises.

The US Treasury has taken the unusual step of coordinating with the Bank of Japan to buy yen, with the US selling euros rather than dollars to fund the purchases.

Both the US and Israel have their motives as well as the means. There are still a lot of known unknowns about what happened in and around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta late last week.

Dear patient readers, You are getting a big serving of Links with an Iran War section in lieu of an Iran War post.

Yves here. We've discussed the problem of not just homes in certain areas but entire communities and areas becoming uninsurable in the US, with

One of the consistent themes of military history has been the reduction of decision latency. Engineers use this term to describe the interval between observation and action.